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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sessions. While concluding that for all classes "about 60 years have been required for the focus of the dancer's libido to travel from her feet up through her knees and on to the pelvis where it presently resides," Cottle emphasized the difference in upper, middle and lower class approaches to dancing...
...lower-class bar, he wrote, "the odors of colognes, after-shave creams, and hair tonics compete ably with vapors of alcohol and tobacco ... Lower-class dance forms, often animalistic, ... are undeniably suggestive: variations of the sexual act, sexual play, the chase, the sudden unexpected consummation of a wild fury, and then stillness, all communicate the dancer's intense drives...
...Elite" dancing, observed in country clubs and "two swank hotels," is marked by restraint and "the carefully planned masking of sexual demonstrations." "Swirling and side-stepping about the floor, the upper-class couples present a handsome contrast to lower-class couples who barely move during slower dances...
...Pentagon reckoning, 37% of the troops assigned to the air and ground war are thus available for combat-far more than some officers in Saigon estimate. The figure is substantially lower than the World War II and Korea rate of 57%, but that is mainly due to the fact that thousands of construction troops were there to develop ports and airfields in the primitive country...
...title of apostolic delegate is one of the most anomalous in the church's bureaucracy. In nations with which it maintains diplomatic ties, the Vatican is represented by 35 nuncios (ambassadors), 16 pro-nuncios (ambassadors of slightly lower rank) and three internuncios (ministers plenipotentiary). The office of apostolic delegate was devised to provide the Vatican with representation in countries, such as the U.S., with which it does not have diplomatic relations. Technically, the apostolic delegate is merely a fraternal envoy to the Catholics of a nation; actually, he is an unofficial diplomat-and, when necessary, a papal hatchet...